Saturday, January 4, 2014

What would you do differently?Maybe see more live theater.Okay, you can do that.It would be a fairly big budget item. Would you want to travel?Hmnn.I do not like beaches.Same here. Sun. Florida. I do not have any inclination. Maybe I'd walk the wall of China.You, walk?Not the wall wall just a few feet. Get on it and look out.I think I am just as satisfied with pictures for most places.Maybe Europe but I did that already.I do not travel well.That is right, you do not.So you are comfortable?Yes.Nothing to change.Nope.

Then I go to my computer to do some admin tasks I checked my RSS feed. There I see a post with a short video by a life coach that suggests that for the new year transition we reflect as follows: Imagine being 90. Ask yourself these questions: What really mattered? What had meaning? What did you love?

My gut reaction was the answer will be the same and that it did not change since the day my son was born.

So I change up the question: Imagine being 95 and feeling comfortable because you had a remarkable life. I think of my grandfather whose imagination made his life bigger. I muse, I want to be able to tell compelling stories. To do that means being open in my life to the adventures presented and having memory to be able to share them. Memory is already a challenge. Cocoa each morning is suppose to help.

Back to a long list of tasks that distracted days have left for me to do at year's end until distracted again by an idea or story from elsewhere. Welcome 2014.

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Quotes that got my attention

Albert Einstein said "“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Response: Finding the crack to let the light come in may be harder than we can anticipate. Try Harder.

Sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman term is “incapacitating knowledge” for the technology enabled avalanche of non-stop information that often makes life seem more complicated and disturbing than it already is.

Response: Find Trusted Curators, Brain Train with exposure to art and consider the value of your own contributions to the avalanche.

Response: Sometime wins are hard to recognize until much time has past so lessen the anxiety with a realistic timeline, too.

Albert Einstein said "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Response: For me, everyday is finding the balance.

Albert Einstein said "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Response: Silence, Judge within me.

George Elliot ( of whom I wrote my Senior High English paper to the dismay of the teacher expecting T.S. Elliot) It is never too late to be who you might have been.

Victor Frankl (College Sociology 100) What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

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